I believe it takes a village to do a PhD and I am greatly indebted to everyone who has been with me throughout these years.

In the context of recent 🇩🇪 elections, but also negotiations in the 🇪🇺 parliament, we should remind ourselves that accommodation has never worked.

💡 Conservative mainstream parties often adopt far-right immigration rhetoric.
💡 Far-right parties soften their stance slightly in government but revert to radical positions afterward.
💡 This dynamic shifts the entire party system further to the right on immigration.

With a combination of word embeddings and dictionaries we create a liberal-illiberal scale and analyse 67 parties across eight European countries over 15 years.

We analyse how parliamentary and governmental participation of far-right parties influence both their own discourse and that of mainstream parties regarding immigration.

Keep on having the same experiences. I feel like it regressed immensely for coding in the last years.